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I’m old enough to remember when very smart people were arguing LLMs wouldn’t be helpful in math because they’re probabilistic in nature and can hallucinate. This was two years ago.

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At this point if AI writes 90% of code, who even survives in tech?

We must NOT let our companies use these Chinese models to save a few bucks. OpenAI and Anthropic are correct. This is vital national security. Please read Bing West's just released Cat 5. I respect the Chinese people greatly but these companies are run by the PLA for heaven's sakes.

Well, as it relates to distillation. 1. Anthropic releases Mythos Preview in April 2026 2. Anthropic sends a letter in June 2026 to US officials accusing Alibaba of approximately 30 million exchanges with its model, using thousands of fraudulent accounts. 3. Kimi K-3 is released in July 2026 with similar frontier capabilities. Alibaba holds an approximate 36% stake in Moonshot AI. Quite the coincidence. As it relates to historic patterns of the same strategy, it's not a coincidence that China's industrial system has repeatedly combined 1) acquisition of foreign technology, coercively or illegally, 2) compression of the time and cost required for independent research and development, 3) state-supported financing, procurement, and industrial policy and capacity expansion, and 4) aggressive price competition in domestic and international markets. 2024 USTR concluded that China's tech-transfer practices persisted, that state-supported cyber theft continued, and that these practices cost American companies and consumers billions of dollars. Case examples: 1. Sinovel and American Superconductor case. A federal jury convicted China-based Sinovel of stealing American Superconductor’s wind-turbine control software. 2. Dupont titanium-dioxide technology case. Federal prosecutors proved a conspiracy to transfer DuPont’s proprietary chloride-route titanium-dioxide process to Chinese state-owned companies. 3. DuPont Pioneer and Monsanto seed lines case. A defendant connected to the Chinese agricultural company Dabeinong pleaded guilty in a conspiracy involving the theft of proprietary inbred corn seeds from DuPont Pioneer and Monsanto fields 4. Chinese intelligence targeting GE Aviation. A Chinese Ministry of State Security officer was convicted of attempting to obtain proprietary aviation information from U.S. companies, including GE Aviation. 5. Google. In January 2026, a former Google engineer was convicted of stealing thousands of pages of confidential material concerning AI supercomputing and chip infrastructure while affiliating himself with two Chinese technology ventures. Prosecutors presented evidence that he intended to reproduce or modify Google’s technology for Chinese entities. 6. Motorola Solutions / Hytera Communications. Beginning in 2006, China-based Hytera recruited Motorola engineers and directed them to take Motorola source code and other trade secrets covering digital mobile radio technology. Motorola had developed the technology through years of research and engineering. Hytera pleaded guilty to conspiracy to steal trade secrets. In March 2026, it was fined $50 million and placed on probation. 7. Coca-Cola / Weihai Jinhong Group. Chemist Xiaorong “Shannon” You obtained proprietary formulations for bisphenol-A-free—or BPA-free—coatings used inside beverage and food cans while working at Coca-Cola and Eastman Chemical. You was convicted of economic espionage, possession of stolen trade secrets and related offenses and was sentenced to 14 years in prison. 8. GlaxoSmithKline / Renopharma. Several individuals associated with GlaxoSmithKline transferred confidential pharmaceutical and biotechnology information to Renopharma, a company created to develop drugs in China. The economic value was potentially enormous: the Department of Justice noted that these kinds of products typically cost more than $1 billion each to research and develop. At least four defendants pleaded guilty, while another defendant was convicted 9. GE turbine tech / Chinese firms, universities, and government-linked industrial programs. Xiaoqing Zheng, a longtime GE Power engineer, was convicted of conspiring to steal GE trade secrets involving turbine-sealing technology and other ground-based and aviation turbine technologies. Trial evidence showed that Zheng and collaborators in China intended the information to benefit the People’s Republic of China and Chinese organizations researching, manufacturing and developing turbine components. Zheng was also identified as a participant in China’s Thousand Talents Program. Following a jury conviction, he was sentenced in 2023 to two years in prison. 10. Edwards Lifesciences / Medtronic / Chinese Medical-device company. Engineer Wenfeng Lu stole confidential information and trade secrets from two American medical-device companies that developed products used to treat cardiac and vascular conditions. While still working for the U.S. companies, Lu traveled repeatedly to China, obtained financing and prepared to open a Chinese company that would manufacture vascular-treatment devices using the stolen American technology. He applied for and was selected to receive approximately $328,000 in Chinese government funding, along with three years of free laboratory space in a Chinese technology park. Prosecutors described the program as one designed to attract overseas scientists and intellectual property to develop Chinese biomedical technology. Lu pleaded guilty to six trade-secret offenses and was sentenced to 27 months in prison. He was arrested before departing for China, preventing the proposed venture from being fully implemented. Just to name a few... Appreciate the comment, honestly. A few of these cases I was not familiar with until having AI dig into it and reading up on them. It's broader than I originally anticipated.

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It’s a simple argument. Open-weight models compress frontier model margins, which reduces cash to invest in scaling up compute for larger pretrains — which is where material increases in intelligence come from. Why feign incomprehension?